Projet Mars One : l'Homme posera le pied sur Mars en 2023
Dans le cadre du projet Mars One, une entreprise indépendante prévoit d'envoyer 4 personnes sur la planète Rouge dès 2023, puis 4 autres tous les deux ans jusqu'en 2033. Pour financer cette incroyable aventure, l'ensemble de la mission sera filmé et vendu aux chaines de télévision. Dans un peu plus de 11 ans, nous saurons enfin tout ce qu’il y a à savoir sur Mars. Dans le cadre du projet Mars One, initié par Gerard ‘t Hooft, prix Nobel de physique en 1999, l’Homme va enfin poser le pied sur la planète rouge. Pour ce faire, l’entreprise indépendante néerlandaise a décidé de faire appel à d’autres firmes privées, notamment Space X, qui a récemment lancé le premier vol privé à destination de la station spatiale internationale. Mais son idée la plus incroyable, est de financer le projet en transformant cette mission en un énorme évènement médiatique. Pour ce qui est de l’objectif de la mission, il s’agira d’envoyer en 2022, quatre personnes pour un aller simple vers la planète rouge.
Consciousness and Creative Trance
Trance is an altered state of consciousness which individuals can enter through a variety of techniques, including hypnotism, drugs, sound (particularly music, percussive drumming etc.), sensory deprivation, physical hardships (eg. flagellation, starvation, exhaustion) and vigorous exercise (particularly dance). People can also use trance, particularly in the context of ‘ritual’ events, to learn new strategies of thinking or of relating to one another. There are different types of learning: for example what Eric Jantsch calls ‘conscious learning’ is a transaction between consciousness, the environment and memory. Jantsch also identifies ‘superconscious learning’, which takes place with the addition of ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ ways of learning. These arise through the interaction of consciousness with transpersonal mass/collective consciousness (eg. Jung’s "collective unconscious"). Accessing Trance States One of the most effective mechanisms for inducing trance however is dancing.
Big Ear Radio Observatory - Explanation of 6EQUJ5
Explanation of the Code "6EQUJ5"On the Wow! Computer Printout By Jerry Ehman The photo of the computer printout of the Wow! Each of the first 50 columns of the computer printout shows the successive values of intensity (or power) received from the Big Ear radio telescope in each channel (10 kHz wide) in successive 12-second intervals (10 seconds was used for actual sampling and another approximately 2 seconds was needed for computer processing). Thus, the "6EQUJ5" code in channel 2 means successive intensities as follows:6 --> the range 6.0 - 6.999...E --> the range 14.0 - 14.999...Q --> the range 26.0 - 26.999...U --> the range 30.0 - 30.999...J --> the range 19.0 - 19.999...5 --> the range 5.0 - 5.999... The value "U", meaning the range 30.0 - 30.999..., was the largest value ever seen. The six successive values in channel 2 fit the antenna pattern of Big Ear very well. Copyright © 1996-2008 Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory.
Deux planètes effroyablement proches
Kepler-36b est une exoplanète qui a tout récemment été découverte. Kepler-36c joue dans la même constellation, à tel point que les deux planètes pourraient presque se percuter ! Kepler-36b est dotée d’une composition rocheuse et est sensiblement de la même taille que notre planète, elle mesure 1,4 fois la taille de la Terre. En effet, tous les 97 jours les orbites des planètes se croisent à une proximité affolante. Le spectacle doit être hallucinant à voir. Le paradoxe ne s’arrête pas là. Or, Kepler-36b et Kepler-36c n’ont ni la même taille, ni la même composition et pourtant elles sont 30 fois plus proches que ce que l’on observe dans notre système solaire. [harvard]
80 Extreme Advertisements That Will Challenge Your Mind
Inspiration An advertisement’s aim is to instantly attract the attention of viewers. Some use humour to draw viewers’ attention, but there are other kinds of advertisements that go to extremes to present something different. As a follow up to our previous article 60 Humorous Advertisements That Will Tickle Your Bones, today we look at the opposite extreme to using humour in advertisements. Presenting another side to design, some of the advertisements shared in this article today may be a little visually disturbing or conceptually controversial. Warning: Viewers Discretion Is Advised! Image from: Squid 80 Controversial and Disturbing Print Ads Let’s look at these advertisements objectively with an open and analytical mind and appreciate the creativity that went into it. Here are 80 controversial advertisements that challenge the boundaries of what is socially and morally acceptable with the use of dark humour and shock tactics. Just liquid hand wash: Cockroaches Ariel: Pervert Alac: Kitchen
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Les premières images et surtout en couleur !
Amis exilés ou en retraite dans une montagne perdue, sachez que Curiosity, un énorme rover, a posé sa roue sur la planète rouge. Conquête de l'espace quand tu nous tiens ! Voici les premières images et surtout en couleur ! Outre le coté conquête, impressionnant et tout le tintouin, si Curiosity est sur Mars, c’est avant tout pour recueillir des données. Autant dire que les premières images de la planète étaient attendues ! L’image a été prise par la caméra Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) du rover et montre le bord du cratère Gale. Pour savourer plus de clichés, le site de la NASA en propose déjà un paquet !
Land Art
Mélange de photographie, de nature et de style, le land-art de Sylvain Meyer s’illustre avec brio au travers de ces images. Grâce à son sens de l’observation, il passe des heures à collecter des éléments de la nature afin de créer une ambiance envoutante. Plus d’images dans la suite.
Top 10 Most Important Discoveries in Astronomy
Astronomy is the cool, sexy field of the scientific world. Sure, biologists and chemists are out there curing diseases or whatever, but they’re just so boring. Meanwhile, astronomers are busy showing us sweet pictures of distant planets and playing around with telescopes the size of buildings. How can you compete with that? 10. The Discovery It’s tough to wade through a couple thousand years of ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Chinese, Mayan and Persian astronomical history to pick out the highlights, so I’ going to cheat and roll all of their achievements up into one entry. How Important Was It? Many of their accomplishments form the basis of modern astronomy, but it’s the fact that they tracked the movement of the stars and planets that really got the whole ball rolling. 9. It took a while for Copernicus’ model to become universally accepted. 8. 7. Remember when we said it took a while for heliocentrism to be accepted? 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Unemployment, Artificial Scarcity and Radical Abundance | Paul Hughes
We are in the midst of massive economic disruption and growing structural unemployment caused by the automation of increasingly large segments of the economy. These days very few people are actually needed to provide the basic necessities of an affluent society. This is what Buckminster Fuller called ephermalization, the ability to do more and more with less and less. But rather than an increase in leisure time one would expect from such gains, we have record levels of poverty and wealth disparity. Despite an economy that continues to grow in per capita terms, the gains of that economy flow into ever fewer hands. A lot of people blame the “free” market, but the situation is anything but. You can see how this theft works in the current wireless services market. What we get instead are companies like Artemis Network’s licensing this technology (PCell) so that you’ll have to keep paying your wireless bill to use it. The same holds true for virtually every sector of the economy.
